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Old May 13th 04, 12:10 AM
Derek Lyons
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Default gratitude etc. (was Apollo: One gas environment?)

(Henry Spencer) wrote:

In article ,
Scott Hedrick wrote:
The important difference, of course, is that the national government of the
abusers is taking steps to punish them...


Many people would have vastly more confidence in this if those steps
promptly resulted in serious punishment for those people *and* their
superiors (who are responsible for the behavior of their subordinates).


The problem is many people have inflated expectations of how far up
the chain the superiors are directly responsible.

Historically, the odds are against it; the way to bet is that nobody
important will suffer for it, even those who carried out the improper
orders will get just slaps on the wrist, and it will be years before even
that happens. Just *why* is this an important difference?


If you cannot see the difference between a country that attempts to do
the right thing, and a country that does not, then your blind
anti-Americanism has affected you even worse than I thought.

D.
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